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Rip Current Statement 110, NWS Tallahassee, FL
NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this rip current statement at Dec 22, 2015, 12:45 PM CST for Bay County, Gulf County, Walton County, Florida. It was in force for 30 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Dec 22, 2015, 12:45 PM CST (18:45 UTC)
- Expired
- Dec 23, 2015, 7:00 PM CST
- In force
- 30 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Tallahassee, FL
Counties Bay County, FL, Gulf County, FL, Walton County, FL
The radar
The Eglin Afb radar (KEVX), 41 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:46 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Tallahassee Rgnl, FL (KTLH), launched 12:00Z, 6.8 hours before the alert went out and 134 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 255 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -8 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 557 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 54 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 203 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 205 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.2
- Supercell composite
- 1.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
695 WHUS42 KTAE 221845 CFWTAE COASTAL HAZARD MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL 145 PM EST TUE DEC 22 2015 ...HIGH RISK OF RIP CURRENTS ALONG PANHANDLE BEACHES TODAY... FLZ108-112-114-231200- /O.NEW.KTAE.RP.S.0110.151222T1845Z-151223T1200Z/ SOUTH WALTON-COASTAL BAY-COASTAL GULF- 145 PM EST TUE DEC 22 2015 /1245 PM CST TUE DEC 22 2015/ ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT THROUGH WEDNESDAY MORNING... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TALLAHASSEE HAS ISSUED A HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK...WHICH IS IN EFFECT THROUGH WEDNESDAY MORNING. * TIMING...AT LEAST THROUGH WEDNESDAY MORNING PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... THERE IS A HIGH RISK OF RIP CURRENTS. RIP CURRENTS ARE POWERFUL CHANNELS OF WATER FLOWING QUICKLY AWAY FROM SHORE...WHICH OCCUR MOST OFTEN AT LOW SPOTS OR BREAKS IN THE SANDBAR AND IN THE VICINITY OF STRUCTURES SUCH AS GROINS... JETTIES AND PIERS. HEED THE ADVICE OF LIFEGUARDS...BEACH PATROL FLAGS AND SIGNS. IF YOU BECOME CAUGHT IN A RIP CURRENT...YELL FOR HELP. REMAIN CALM...DO NOT EXHAUST YOURSELF AND STAY AFLOAT WHILE WAITING FOR HELP. IF YOU HAVE TO SWIM OUT OF A RIP CURRENT...SWIM PARALLEL TO SHORE AND BACK TOWARD THE BEACH WHEN POSSIBLE. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO SWIM DIRECTLY AGAINST A RIP CURRENT AS YOU WILL TIRE QUICKLY. && $$
1 follow-up statement
181 WHUS42 KTAE 230938 CFWTAE COASTAL HAZARD MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL 438 AM EST WED DEC 23 2015 ...HIGH RISK OF RIP CURRENTS ALONG PANHANDLE BEACHES TODAY... FLZ108-112-114-240100- /O.EXT.KTAE.RP.S.0110.000000T0000Z-151224T0100Z/ SOUTH WALTON-COASTAL BAY-COASTAL GULF- 438 AM EST WED DEC 23 2015 /338 AM CST WED DEC 23 2015/ ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK NOW IN EFFECT THROUGH THIS EVENING... * TIMING...AT LEAST THROUGH WEDNESDAY EVENING PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... THERE IS A HIGH RISK OF RIP CURRENTS. RIP CURRENTS ARE POWERFUL CHANNELS OF WATER FLOWING QUICKLY AWAY FROM SHORE...WHICH OCCUR MOST OFTEN AT LOW SPOTS OR BREAKS IN THE SANDBAR AND IN THE VICINITY OF STRUCTURES SUCH AS GROINS... JETTIES AND PIERS. HEED THE ADVICE OF LIFEGUARDS...BEACH PATROL FLAGS AND SIGNS. IF YOU BECOME CAUGHT IN A RIP CURRENT...YELL FOR HELP. REMAIN CALM...DO NOT EXHAUST YOURSELF AND STAY AFLOAT WHILE WAITING FOR HELP. IF YOU HAVE TO SWIM OUT OF A RIP CURRENT...SWIM PARALLEL TO SHORE AND BACK TOWARD THE BEACH WHEN POSSIBLE. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO SWIM DIRECTLY AGAINST A RIP CURRENT AS YOU WILL TIRE QUICKLY. && $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Tallahassee, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 22, 12:30 AM CST | Special Marine Warning | TAE | 2 hr | |
| Dec 22, 12:57 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Bay, Holmes, Walton, Washington | 78 min |
| Dec 22, 2:20 AM CST | Special Marine Warning | TAE | 115 min | |
| Dec 22, 3:02 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Bay, Calhoun, Gulf, Jackson, Washington | 58 min |
| Dec 22, 4:17 AM CST | Special Marine Warning | TAE | 88 min | |
| Dec 22, 5:40 AM CST | Special Marine Warning | TAE | 2 hr | |
| Dec 22, 11:32 AM CST | River Flood Warning | TAE | Calhoun, Franklin, Gulf, Liberty | 23 days |
Nearby
Rip Current Statements in Florida, 2015Every rip current statement in 2015
Sources
The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.